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by xabir
Sat Dec 17, 2022 1:30 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Why is the end of suffering desirable?
Replies: 38
Views: 3352

Re: Why is the end of suffering desirable?

My mentor Thusness told us in 2006, "Life is like a passing cloud, when it comes to an end, a hundred years is like yesterday, like a snap of a finger. If it is only about one life, it really doesn'’t matter whether we are enlightened. The insight that the Blessed One has is not just about one ...
by xabir
Sat Dec 17, 2022 6:03 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Why is the end of suffering desirable?
Replies: 38
Views: 3352

Re: Why is the end of suffering desirable?

Thirty Tiṁsa Sutta (SN 15:13) NAVIGATIONSuttas/SN/15:13 Now on that occasion the Blessed One was staying near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Forest, the Squirrels’ Sanctuary. Then thirty monks from Pāva—all wilderness dwellers, all alms-goers, all cast-off rag wearers, all triple-robe wearers, all still wi...
by xabir
Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:40 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

In my opinion, Geoff's e-book Measureless Mind https://app.box.com/s/nxby5606lbaei9oudiz6xsyrdasacqph is a must read for everyone. Here are my two favourite parts (but every part of the PDF is really a must read): The Recognition of Cessation (Nirodhasaññā) For whom there is neither a far shore, Nor...
by xabir
Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:38 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

e.g. http://www.awakeningtoreality.com/2011/10/a-zen-exploration-of-bahiya-sutta.html - Bahiya Sutta as narrated by a Soto Zen teacher on how it relates to his own journey and experience from I AM to one mind to anatta. You will come to realise how precise and profound the Buddha's dharma is compar...
by xabir
Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:02 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

You will come to realise how precise and profound the Buddha's dharma is compared to Hinduism and other atman based religions. atman is not denied in budhism..when there is craving for form then satta is spoken of, “Sir, they speak of this thing called a ‘sentient being’. “‘satto, satto’ti, bhante,...
by xabir
Mon Jun 06, 2022 3:47 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

Like a river flowing into the ocean, the self dissolves into nothingness. When a practitioner becomes thoroughly clear about the illusionary nature of the individuality, subject-object division does not take place. A person experiencing “AMness” will find “AMness in everything”. What is it like? Be...
by xabir
Tue May 31, 2022 4:36 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

Again, as I stress, this is not denial of 'knower' but understanding its nondual and anatta nature. I focus on what self feels like, what is to be it. Can use my eyes to focus on it after having mental gist of it. After knowing what it is in heart, i can simply focus on that, by then it has no sens...
by xabir
Tue May 31, 2022 3:18 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

Why name something differently from what it is empirically. What feels permanent, it is what it is. And more importantly you can attain it firsthand and know that there is a reality where this knower exists. “Session Start: Tuesday, 10 July, 2007 (11:35 AM) Thusness: X last time used to say somethi...
by xabir
Mon May 30, 2022 7:35 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

This state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi is also described even by Theravada monks like Ajahn Brahmavamso: “When the Body Disappears. [text snipped, posted in AtR guide elsewhere] “When the Body Disappears. Remember "con men," "con women" as well. These con men can sell you anything! Th...
by xabir
Mon May 30, 2022 7:32 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

It is not good to train lucidity in sleep while still not overcoming the illusion of self. It can cause unpleasant experiences like insomnia due to clinging to a background witnessing. This is different from nondual anatta experience in sleep I don't train lucidity in sleep. I said, i mimic it in w...
by xabir
Tue May 24, 2022 12:31 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

knower doesn't exist the way objects exists.., you are worse than annihilationist, you don't even acknowledge the seer. I have had direct realization of the so called 'I AM' or 'Witness' or 'Poo Roo' (The One Who Knows - Thai forest term) in an earlier phase of my realization. Now my realization ha...
by xabir
Mon May 23, 2022 4:46 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

knower doesn't exist the way objects exists.., you are worse than annihilationist, you don't even acknowledge the seer. I have had direct realization of the so called 'I AM' or 'Witness' or 'Poo Roo' (The One Who Knows - Thai forest term) in an earlier phase of my realization. Now my realization ha...
by xabir
Mon May 23, 2022 4:42 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

I become aware of my self certainly after being hopeless, in shame etc. Meditating longer time, there can appear memories of some past incidents or potential encounters.. what then incite shame in me and i come aware of myself. I wouldn't call that reifying. This is an act of appropriating. The fir...
by xabir
Sun May 22, 2022 5:12 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

.. When being aware, there is also the knower or ability to know that you are aware. Why that agency is hindrance or something to be removed? It is not so much removing agency as a hindrance but realizing there never was agent or agency, only actions without agent/watcher/doer/experiencer. Much lik...
by xabir
Sun May 22, 2022 3:41 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism
Replies: 203
Views: 7220

Re: Question about "luminous mind" in Thai Forest Buddhism

Conditional things themselves doesn't have svabhava. So are unconditional things. I can quote Mahayana sutras on that, but since the moderator has spoken, I shall quote purely Pali suttas on this subject: Anatta, unlike the other two seals, covers both conditioned and unconditioned phenomena such a...